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hydemaine · Joined: 17 May 2009 Posts: 651

On the theme of long disbanded cup competions like the Texaco Anglo-Scottish and Watney does anyone have issues from this? I think it only ran for two years but unsure?

I have this which is a Northern Group 1 League brochure produced by Manchester City and the two City match programmes from the ones I actually bothered to attend!

bisphamseasider · Joined: 02 Jun 2009 Posts: 2731 Location: Blackpool

I think it ran from 1985 to 1992 and was also known under sponsorship as the Simod Cup and Zenith Data Systems Cup.

hydemaine · Joined: 17 May 2009 Posts: 651

I didn't realise that the simond and zenith were direct descendants of this.

Very poory attended competitions in my opinion.

bisphamseasider · Joined: 02 Jun 2009 Posts: 2731 Location: Blackpool

There's some info here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Members_Cup

dangerman · Joined: 07 Dec 2011 Posts: 1565

I think I might have some programmes from this cup will dig them out and post some pictures if I have any

Pete’s Picture Palace · Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2016 2:15 am Post subject:

Aaah.............. The Zenith Data Systems Cup - silverware Palace actually won in 1991.

Left to right:-

John Humphrey (with trophy), Andy Thorn, Alan Pardew, Nigel Martyn, Eric Young

Dorking · Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2529

Palace winning that was absolutely unbelievable. Nowadays, people tend to rewrite history and downgrade it.

To be fair the crowds were terrible until the very latter stages of the competiton

Remember Reading took something like 50,000 fans to Wembley for their final!

Five and In · Joined: 15 Sep 2015 Posts: 1436 Location: Dawlish, Devon

Reading valued their 1988 victory so highly that they produced a 25 year celebration booklet to commemorate it in 2013.

sellsell39 · Joined: 19 Nov 2011 Posts: 810 Location: Needham market

Believe it or not, I was actually "locked out" of a Zenith Data Systems match !!

Yes locked out, I think I was 14 years old.

Along with a few thousand other Ipswich Town fans for the Norwich v Ipswich ZDS match in 1990.
The coaches arrived quite late and the Ipswich turnstiles had already been closed at 6:30pm - as the enclosure was full.

It was chaos and all we could do was listen to the match/atmosphere from outside. Occasionally you could catch a glimpse of the ball being hoofed from one end of the pitch to the other.

Norwich rarely played Ipswich in those days so it was a huge match for the East Anglian area.

NWM Football · Joined: 02 Oct 2015 Posts: 264 Location: Middlesex

Was at the Forest v. Everton final in 1989, 4-3 to Forest, bloody brilliant !

Garry Parker's goal in that was one of the best I'd ever seen. Came from an Everton corner which Forest cleared, and fed Parker, who took it from the edge of one penalty box to the edge of the other, before smashing it past Southall.

Clough's Forest team of the late '80's were a great watch.
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pastpirate · Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2016 8:42 pm Post subject:

Rovers only ever played 3 games in this competition.
In 90-91 we played away at Watford and Palace.
In 91-92 We had a home game with Ipswich.

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blackburncollector · Joined: 20 Apr 2013 Posts: 368 Location: Blackburn

If anybody has a copy of Blackburn v Oxford 1986/87 from this competition I'd very very interested - it's the only programme I'm missing from this competition.

Fingers crossed someone out there has a copy.

Andy
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Pete’s Picture Palace · Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2016 1:07 am Post subject:

August 1982 - Palace were involved in three matches with Brentford, Wimbledon and Millwall for the Football League Trophy which seemed to run for only that one season - at least, that was the only season CPFC took part in it.

This is the 4-page programme for the Palace v Wimbledon match on 17th August, front cover & inside - the back page was all adverts.

Here Tommy Langley takes on Dons' Tony Tagg quite probably with little effect.

Palace's results in this competition were:-

14.8.82
Brentford 2, Palace 2 (Brooks, Edwards) - att: 3,397

17.8.82
Palace 1 (Edwards), Wimbledon 0 - att: 2,852

21.8.82
Palace 0, Millwall 3 - att: 4,844

There ended Palace's interest, if it ever actually started. I certainly didn't see any of those games - cricket got in the way, thankfully.

Does anyone know what happened later in the tournament?

derby1884 · Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2016 1:17 am Post subject:

Pete’s Picture Palace wrote:

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Does anyone know what happened later in the tournament?

Millwall beat Lincoln in the Final.
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derby1884 · Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2016 1:23 am Post subject:

Tough one to track down, apparently...

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dangerman · Joined: 07 Dec 2011 Posts: 1565

i have a few programmes from the simod cup and zenith data cup

foxes1 · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 1223 Location: Leicester

I remember both the Simod & ZDS cup, in particular the ZDS Northern Semi-Final played at Meadow Lane Notts County on a wet and windy night on 08/01/92. Standing on the open terrace in the pouring rain and the game went into extra-time. Leicester won 2-1 the attendance was 11559 with 10000 Leicester fans making the short journey up the A46. It ended in tears in the Northern Final when we lost to Nott'm Forest

pastpirate · Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2016 10:36 am Post subject:

DM.
The Rovers prog you have there is an Associate Cup one.
That is the competition for the two bottom leagues that is still going now.
The Full members Cup/Simod/ZDS is for teams in the top two leagues.

The FM was started to give clubs extra games when English clubs were chucked out of European tournaments.

Cheers,Jamie.
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pompeypete · Forum Moderator Joined: 17 Sep 2009 Posts: 1094

Here,s a few more Full Members Cup..........for Pompey

Just 3 of the 6 programmes before the name changed......
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dangerman · Joined: 07 Dec 2011 Posts: 1565

I have some more after the name changed to simod and zenith data